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Two of a set of four salts, Boulton & Fothergill, 1776

Image from: Birmingham Assay Office.

These salts with blue glass liners are engraved with a crest of a bent armoured hand holding a scimitar. As this coat of arms was used by about fifty families it is not easy to identify the client for whom the pieces were made.


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